Did the cow do it? Always thought that was a lot like blaming the dog for knocking Mom's vase off the table.

No, Mrs O'Leary's cow did NOT do it. It was Mrs Catherine O'Leary's no-good drunken husband, Patrick O'Leary that did it. He passed out with one of those ridiculous Irish pipes in his mouth, and accidentally 4 square miles of the city when his shirt caught fire, causing the whiskey in his bloodstream to explode.

Michael Ahern, the Chicago Republican reporter who created the cow story, admitted in 1893 that he had made it up because he thought it would make colorful copy (Fact).

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"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

How the hell did a fugly and twitchy character like Abraham Lincoln get elected as President of the United States? I suspect something nefarious.

While a candidate, Lincoln very wisely refused to be televised, while at the same time making fun of Steven Douglas' hair. Douglas was very sensitive about this, and had a "Big Ed Muskie" moment, which cost him the election.

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" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Bering Land Bridge between Alaska and Russia, back about 12,000 years ago: I call bullshit. Thoughts?

Prehistorical, and thus outside the scope of this thread. Perhaps you should ask one of those secular-humanist "scientists" about it.

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" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Given the particular and incredibly deeply felt resentment against Hitler within even the Fatherland (let alone in conquered and annexed territories), among widely ranging social groups including the intelligentsia, Marxist activists, certain religious institutions and even the Wehrmacht, and given that indeed there were plenty of opportunities to actually deal with him AND his top aides, why were the Germans not serious enough about having a good time in the years 1933 to 1945?

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Well, that's a touchy subject to many Greeks. The official story is that the Greeks were wiped out due to the treason of a local named Ephialtes, who led the Persians around the back way to outflank the Greeks on the 2d day of the actual battle.

But here's the real story: Not knowing he was being outflanked, Leonidas dismissed the bulk of the army, keeping only 300 Spartans, 400 Thebans, and 700 Thespians. Now, what good he thought 700 actors would do is left to your imagination, but the end result was predictable. The Thespians kept stopping to deliver asides, and the Persians - being no-nonsense people - stabbed them. The battle was over within another day.

The Greeks, however, managed to defeat the Persian navy with Salamis (How they beat them with sandwich meat is a mystery, but it IS established fact, look it up for yourself), and eventually, the Greeks beat the Persians at the battle of placenta (which is pretty fucking gross, if you ask me).

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."- TGRR, raising the bar at work.